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AnthropicNOV 03, 2026 ↗Anthropic is still grappling with the economics of computeAt a moment when Anthropic's compute margins should be getting better, they’re getting worse.OpenAINOV 03, 2026 ↗Heimstaden is changing residential real estate management with AIDiscover how Heimstaden uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to transform property management, cut costs, and empower employees across Europe.Google DeepMindNOV 03, 2026 ↗Agentic cheminformatics with Google AntigravityLearn how Google Antigravity and our Cheminformatics Skills accelerate drug discovery workflows, search compounds, and propose novel rigidified macrocycles.xAINOV 02, 2026 ↗Elon Musk throttles Grok Bot limits due to ‘unsustainably high’ costsMusk recently referred to Grok Bot as having "the fastest growth of a product that I've ever seen in my life."
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NOV 02, 2026OpenAI Launched LifeVal on November 2. The 80.6% Astra Score Going Around Is a Relay; the Page Prints Only Example Cards.→NOV 01, 2026Meituan's LongCat-2.5 Is a 1.6-Trillion-Parameter MoE With About 48 Billion Active. The $0.30 and $1.20 API Price Is Limited-Time, With No End Date.→OCT 30, 2026OpenAI's New Biology Model Is GPT-6 Astra With Fewer Refusals. It Costs 50% More.→OCT 30, 2026Clover-35B-A3B Claims 73.6 on SWE-bench Verified. Every Number Is the Vendor's, and the Decision Model Is Not Out.→OCT 29, 2026Pika H3 Flex Ships Open Weights for 768p. 4K, Five Audio Stems, and Fast Serving Stay on Pika's Hosted Stack.→
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NOV 03, 2026Chainstack Reports Production Systems Breach Exposing Customer Data and Password HashesBlockchain infrastructure provider Chainstack on Tuesday disclosed that it was targeted in a cyber attack that allowed an unauthorized party to gain access to some parts of its infrastructure.
The in...The Hacker News · coding↗NOV 03, 2026mSecure Warns Users to Change Passwords, Reset 2FA and Passkeys After Suspicious ActivityCustomers of the mSecure password manager are being urged to act now to protect the confidential information they store in it, possibly by changing passwords, resetting two-factor authentication (2FA)...The Hacker News · coding↗NOV 03, 2026Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, tooYesterday's hot paper was Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read write neural network weights by Rikiya Takehi, Jayden Teoh, Alex Zhang, and Omar Khattab. The paper (OK, the auth...Simon Willison · coding↗NOV 03, 2026Hiding inside Palantir’s skyrocketing quarter is a foreboding signalPalantir's U.S. commercial revenue surpassed U.S. government revenue for the first time ever.TechCrunch · coding↗NOV 03, 2026Anthropic is working on a system to prove AI models’ identityCalled FlashProve, the system would let anyone check that an AI response really came from the model it claims to be from.Anthropic · coding↗NOV 02, 2026Critical Langflow Flaws Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code on ServersTwo critical flaws in Langflow could let a remote attacker with no account bypass authentication or run arbitrary code, IBM said last week.
Langflow is an open-source tool for building AI agents and ...The Hacker News · coding↗NOV 02, 2026Qodo builds context into AI code review with CodexQodo brings company knowledge and coding standards into Codex, helping developers catch P0 issues across repositories before opening a pull request.OpenAI · coding↗NOV 02, 202642AI comes out of stealth with $62.5M and a world model that can ‘predict human behavior’Here's a question straight out of sci-fi: What if AI could predict what you were going to do before you decided to, even in a completely new situation?TechCrunch · coding↗NOV 02, 2026⚡ Weekly Recap: Critical CVEs, Linux DDoS Botnet, Device-Code Phishing, Android Spyware and MoreSome attacks this week didn't need much of a trick. A fake support call, a trusted extension, a shared link, or a device with no password. Small things that people barely think about. Yet each was eno...The Hacker News · coding↗NOV 02, 2026Google Disrupts 1.3 Million-Device Android Botnet, Says TV Box Maker Sold Criminal AccessA botnet of more than 1.3 million Android devices, mostly TV set-top boxes, lost control of its servers in late October in a takedown led by Google.
Google says it is highly confident that device mak...The Hacker News · coding↗NOV 02, 2026Scaling Git at OpenAIHow OpenAI built Pando, a Git-compatible backend designed for the scale of development that Codex makes possible.OpenAI · coding↗NOV 01, 2026Hackers Steal About $2.7 Million From Polymarket Traders via Hijacked DebugBear ScriptMalicious code on the website of prediction market Polymarket sold some signed-in traders' positions and moved their funds to the hackers on October 29. The code had replaced a page-speed script that ...The Hacker News · coding↗